Apple in named among 22 other high tech firms in a lawsuit by Ganas LLC. The company claims the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker and others violated a patent regarding object orientation.
The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, involves patent No. 7,316,913, which covers an “XML/HTTP-based protocol for sending messages from one object to another across the Internet in a platform independent manner.” Ganas claims Apple, HP, Adobe, TiVo, Xerox and others violated patents 7,325,053, 7,734,756 and 7,007,094.
The plaintiff is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages.
Earlier this month, Apple was named as a defendant in a patent infringement lawsuit by VirnetX, which claimed the consumer electronics firm’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch violated two patents concerning virtual networking. Like Ganas, VirnetX also filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a court viewed as friendly to patent-infringement plaintiffs.
[9to5Mac]
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